December 8, 2025 • 8 mins
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A 25-year DEA veteran allegedly laundered cash, advised traffickers, and even discussed explosive-laden drones—all while retaining a security clearance. This isn’t just corruption; it’s a roadmap for why the drug trade thrives. When dirty money flows into crypto, real estate, and luxury developments—from Miami’s high-rise boom to New York’s ghost towers—the system quietly absorbs it. Here’s why the war on drugs won’t be won until America targets the money pipeline, not the boats.
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A 25-year DEA veteran allegedly laundered cash, advised traffickers, and even discussed explosive-laden drones—all while retaining a security clearance. This isn’t just corruption; it’s a roadmap for why the drug trade thrives. When dirty money flows into crypto, real estate, and luxury developments—from Miami’s high-rise boom to New York’s ghost towers—the system quietly absorbs it. Here’s why the war on drugs won’t be won until America targets the money pipeline, not the boats.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is how you make a dent in the drug trade,
not bomb and boats. Former Drug Enforcement Administration. A DEA
official appointed as the Deputy Chief of the Office of
Financial Operations during the Obama administration, still holds security clearance.
(00:40):
It was indicted on Friday. Didn't hear about this? Did you?
Indicted on Friday on charges of agreeing to launder twelve
million dollars for the Alisco New Generation Gartel, which was
designated a foreign terrorist organization in February of this year.
Now it is a foreign terrorist organization. And this DEA official,
(01:07):
this Paul Campbell, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't that treasonous?
Wouldn't that qualify as a treason is Act? And the
punishment for treason, if I'm not mistaken, is death penalty.
(01:31):
Just throwing this out there at this point in time.
Paul Campo, who oversaw the FBI, this is okay. Why
things I told you? You want to go after drugs. Follow money, babe, Okay,
follow the money, follow the money laundering. Remember uh, oh
my god, Joe Pesci job Peschi. Remember the accountant in
(01:54):
lease the weapon to and he was trying to explain
to them money laundering. He's like, okay, okay, and you
know he's explaining who Danny Glover and Mel Gibson, how
money laundering works, the entire thing. But that was it
was pretty fun. That's who you get. You want you
crack down, you follow the money people. Anyway. Yeah, he
(02:19):
resigned this Paul Campbo in twenty sixteen ahead of Trump's inauguration,
laundered around seven hundred and fifty thousand for the cartel
by converting cash into cryptocurrency, and agreed to launder far more,
totaling over twelve million. His home was rated by federal
agents on third nice pad got a nice house there, yeah,
(02:42):
in in and around the DC area there, yes, you know,
uh yeah, you got that whole Fairfax, Virginia, Bethees, the Maryland,
all you know, the power players in d C. Campbell
also provided a payment for around two and twenty kilos
of cocaine on the understanding that the drugs had been
imported into the US twenty five years at the DEA.
(03:10):
He sold himself to the cartel as someone who could
give inside information on DEA operations, help them move drug money,
help them avoid detection, and even advise on narcotics logistics.
(03:31):
In late twenty twenty four, along with his friend Robert Sensei,
they began conspiring with an undercover government source they believe
was with the cartel. They discussed using drones pat with
C four explosives for a cartel operation. When the undercover
(03:51):
agent asked what they could do with the drones, Campbellogi said,
we put explosives and we just send it over, adding
that six cools of C four would be enough to
blow up the whole blanking and then the sentence trails off.
Campus alleged that he told the undercover source that because
of his past work inside the DA's intelligence and financial units,
(04:14):
he still had connections within the agency and could advise
the cartel on how to evade detection. He portrayed himself
as someone who unerstood DA investigative patterns, eternal targeting systems,
and the vulnerabilities of US financial controls. Again, I can
go on with the entire story and you can look
(04:35):
it up as well. It's unfortunate it's not getting much press.
But just as we complain about corruption corruption in Mexico
with the tie ins between you know, the cartels and
government and the police, we have our same issues as
(04:57):
well here in the United States. And again one of
the things that add is not to mention the fact
that again it's the laundering part that these you know,
people in power really like, well, you've got that amount
of money. Hey, let's put up an apartment building. Let's
gentrify this, let's do and money's got to go somewhere, people,
(05:23):
The money has to make its way into this system somewhere. Okay.
It's not like people be walking around with duffel bags
full of cash. Okay. Again, cash loses value in of itself.
Need to buy assets, need to buy property, need to
buy things. And that's what they do. Okay, not even
(05:46):
just can be done through a legal fashion. You talk
about it in the same sense where you've got commodities
or these people that make a fortune in oil and
gas and all these places from around the world. O
soually having this conversation this past weekend Miami, right now,
Miami's pooling okay, as far as residences are concerned. Not
(06:06):
to mention the fact the UK, you know, raised taxes,
they had tax laws going back to the eighteenth century,
that they're changing. People are leaving the UK. Millionaire after
the millionaires leaving Miami. They've got new residences going. If
they just broke around on a residence of Bentley Residence
(06:27):
in Miami on the water, you actually pull your car
up into the elevator and it takes the car to
your floor where you have like a parking garage there
on your floor a porch. Has already got a similar
building in town, and it's like the biggest building, the
biggest foundation they've ever poured in the entire state of Florida.
(06:51):
The money has to be parked there. Now you're a
member of a car tail, you want to you're going
to have to find a way to walk. Well, you
know what, you can put it into an apartment, put
it into a high rise. Take a look at these
high rises in New York City that were put up
on Park Avenue. It's a complete miscalculation by Michael Bloomberg.
Thought it was going to revitalize and make the neighborhood
(07:13):
hop in. Oh my God, it's gonna be great. We're
gonna have all these rich people moving in here. They're
never there. They're never there. You take a look at
these tall you know, skyrises, residential things on Park have
with brand new ones that are up there, empty, no lights,
no nothing. Everybody's gone again. These people will they have
money to burn? Well why do they do? What? Do
(07:36):
just keeping cash? Now buy an apartment parkm Maybe I'll
go there for a few days because they can. This
is the same concept laundering the money, and the United
States is a good place to launder money. And I'm
gonna say this till I'm blew in a face. Okay,
(07:57):
this is why the drug things never going to go away.
Say we're gonna go away. There's too many people, too
many people that are making money investing investing drug money. Yeah.
I wish, you know, I wish it could be more
positive on this, but I just don't see it. Yeah,
(08:22):
people that way. Too many people have an ethical bypass
at birth and will look the other way. We'll find
ways of justifying using this money in some way, shape,
matter of form. Well, you know, at least I'm thinking
it's bad money and making the community better that's that's
the way it works, Folks watch dog on Wall street
(08:43):
dot com
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is how you make a dent in the drug trade,
not bomb and boats. Former Drug Enforcement Administration. A DEA
official appointed as the Deputy Chief of the Office of
Financial Operations during the Obama administration, still holds security clearance.
(00:40):
It was indicted on Friday. Didn't hear about this? Did you?
Indicted on Friday on charges of agreeing to launder twelve
million dollars for the Alisco New Generation Gartel, which was
designated a foreign terrorist organization in February of this year.
Now it is a foreign terrorist organization. And this DEA official,
(01:07):
this Paul Campbell, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't that treasonous?
Wouldn't that qualify as a treason is Act? And the
punishment for treason, if I'm not mistaken, is death penalty.
(01:31):
Just throwing this out there at this point in time.
Paul Campo, who oversaw the FBI, this is okay. Why
things I told you? You want to go after drugs. Follow money, babe, Okay,
follow the money, follow the money laundering. Remember uh, oh
my god, Joe Pesci job Peschi. Remember the accountant in
(01:54):
lease the weapon to and he was trying to explain
to them money laundering. He's like, okay, okay, and you
know he's explaining who Danny Glover and Mel Gibson, how
money laundering works, the entire thing. But that was it
was pretty fun. That's who you get. You want you
crack down, you follow the money people. Anyway. Yeah, he
(02:19):
resigned this Paul Campbo in twenty sixteen ahead of Trump's inauguration,
laundered around seven hundred and fifty thousand for the cartel
by converting cash into cryptocurrency, and agreed to launder far more,
totaling over twelve million. His home was rated by federal
agents on third nice pad got a nice house there, yeah,
(02:42):
in in and around the DC area there, yes, you know,
uh yeah, you got that whole Fairfax, Virginia, Bethees, the Maryland,
all you know, the power players in d C. Campbell
also provided a payment for around two and twenty kilos
of cocaine on the understanding that the drugs had been
imported into the US twenty five years at the DEA.
(03:10):
He sold himself to the cartel as someone who could
give inside information on DEA operations, help them move drug money,
help them avoid detection, and even advise on narcotics logistics.
(03:31):
In late twenty twenty four, along with his friend Robert Sensei,
they began conspiring with an undercover government source they believe
was with the cartel. They discussed using drones pat with
C four explosives for a cartel operation. When the undercover
(03:51):
agent asked what they could do with the drones, Campbellogi said,
we put explosives and we just send it over, adding
that six cools of C four would be enough to
blow up the whole blanking and then the sentence trails off.
Campus alleged that he told the undercover source that because
of his past work inside the DA's intelligence and financial units,
(04:14):
he still had connections within the agency and could advise
the cartel on how to evade detection. He portrayed himself
as someone who unerstood DA investigative patterns, eternal targeting systems,
and the vulnerabilities of US financial controls. Again, I can
go on with the entire story and you can look
(04:35):
it up as well. It's unfortunate it's not getting much press.
But just as we complain about corruption corruption in Mexico
with the tie ins between you know, the cartels and
government and the police, we have our same issues as
(04:57):
well here in the United States. And again one of
the things that add is not to mention the fact
that again it's the laundering part that these you know,
people in power really like, well, you've got that amount
of money. Hey, let's put up an apartment building. Let's
gentrify this, let's do and money's got to go somewhere, people,
(05:23):
The money has to make its way into this system somewhere. Okay.
It's not like people be walking around with duffel bags
full of cash. Okay. Again, cash loses value in of itself.
Need to buy assets, need to buy property, need to
buy things. And that's what they do. Okay, not even
(05:46):
just can be done through a legal fashion. You talk
about it in the same sense where you've got commodities
or these people that make a fortune in oil and
gas and all these places from around the world. O
soually having this conversation this past weekend Miami, right now,
Miami's pooling okay, as far as residences are concerned. Not
(06:06):
to mention the fact the UK, you know, raised taxes,
they had tax laws going back to the eighteenth century,
that they're changing. People are leaving the UK. Millionaire after
the millionaires leaving Miami. They've got new residences going. If
they just broke around on a residence of Bentley Residence
(06:27):
in Miami on the water, you actually pull your car
up into the elevator and it takes the car to
your floor where you have like a parking garage there
on your floor a porch. Has already got a similar
building in town, and it's like the biggest building, the
biggest foundation they've ever poured in the entire state of Florida.
(06:51):
The money has to be parked there. Now you're a
member of a car tail, you want to you're going
to have to find a way to walk. Well, you
know what, you can put it into an apartment, put
it into a high rise. Take a look at these
high rises in New York City that were put up
on Park Avenue. It's a complete miscalculation by Michael Bloomberg.
Thought it was going to revitalize and make the neighborhood
(07:13):
hop in. Oh my God, it's gonna be great. We're
gonna have all these rich people moving in here. They're
never there. They're never there. You take a look at
these tall you know, skyrises, residential things on Park have
with brand new ones that are up there, empty, no lights,
no nothing. Everybody's gone again. These people will they have
money to burn? Well why do they do? What? Do
(07:36):
just keeping cash? Now buy an apartment parkm Maybe I'll
go there for a few days because they can. This
is the same concept laundering the money, and the United
States is a good place to launder money. And I'm
gonna say this till I'm blew in a face. Okay,
(07:57):
this is why the drug things never going to go away.
Say we're gonna go away. There's too many people, too
many people that are making money investing investing drug money. Yeah.
I wish, you know, I wish it could be more
positive on this, but I just don't see it. Yeah,
(08:22):
people that way. Too many people have an ethical bypass
at birth and will look the other way. We'll find
ways of justifying using this money in some way, shape,
matter of form. Well, you know, at least I'm thinking
it's bad money and making the community better that's that's
the way it works, Folks watch dog on Wall street
(08:43):
dot com
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